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Links to the news items, latest released book and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Two 10th-Century Stone Idols, Which Were Stolen From a Temple in India and Found in a Garden Shed in the U.K., Will Be Repatriated Stone tools and camel tooth suggest people were in the Pacific Northwest more than 18,000 years ago Elite Roman man buried with sword may have been 'restrained' in d...

Bastille Day is a holiday celebrating the storming of the Bastille —a military fortress and prison—on 14th July, 1789, in a violent uprising that helped usher in the French Revolution . Bastille Day remains a symbol of national pride and unity for the French people, reminding them of their history and the power of collective action. It is a time for reflection, celebration and an expression of the...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Ancient Egypt breakthrough after 'false door' into 'Underworld' uncovered inside tomb Was the last battle of the American Revolution fought in India? A growing number of historians think so As British museums send artefacts back to their origin countries, campaign grows to return Henry VIII's 'Ho...

The Spear of Longinus is reputed to be the one that pierced Christ’s side as He hung upon the cross. Hitler discovered that there were at least three other “holy” spears in Europe at that time. One was in the Vatican. A second had been taken to Paris at the time of the Crusades. Another was to be found in a church in Cracow, Poland. But the Spear of Longinus , named after the Roman centurion who w...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Pompeii archaeologists discover 'pizza' painting Complete Bronze Age town with elite tombs discovered in northern China Scientists discover what could be the oldest evidence of cannibalism among ancient human relatives Khmer-Period Carvings Unearthed at Buddhist Shrine in Thailand Excavated sites...

To avoid transgression, some Buddhists would devise ingenious methods of bringing about the death of an intended victim without administering the fatal blow. Buy Links for ' Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts II ': Amazon India Amazon USA And don't forget to checkout Historylogy.com for latest book reviews and tidbits from the pages of history. Please feel free to our social media ID's...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Worshippers of cat-like god got high off drinking brew mixed with hallucinogenic plants and 'vaginal fluid' - from a jug shaped like their deity Eagle-eyed expert rummaging through Austrian library stumbles across 25cm segment of Egyptian notebook dating back to 260BC Fascinating pictures showing...

In 1907 a commission established to investigate the origins of the game declared categorically that it had been invented in 1839 by an American general named Abner Doubleday in Cooperstown in upstate New York. But evidence suggests that baseball originated much earlier — in Europe. Buy Links for ' Reader's Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts II ': Amazon India Amazon USA And don't forget to chec...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Tutankhamun 'was killed by drink-driving chariot crash': Drunken teenage boy king's injuries from joyride gone wrong got infected and led to his slow and painful death, claims researcher 'Extremely rare' 3,000-year-old sword discovered in Germany is so well preserved it SHINES, archaeologists say...

John Hanson was born in Charles County, Maryland, in 1721. He first attracted public notice in 1757 when he was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates, or General Assembly, where he sat until 1779. A staunch patriot, Hanson established himself as a prominent leader in the growing discontent and agitation about British rule over the Thirteen Colonies. Buy Links for ' Reader's Digest Strange Sto...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: 2,300-year-old Buddhist elephant statue from India is one of the oldest known 12,000-year-old flutes carved of bone are some of the oldest in the world and sound like birds of prey Oldest evidence of humans in Greece is 700,000 years old, a quarter of a million years older than previous record 'L...

If popular legend is to be believed, the first creature to enjoy the invigorating effects of Coffee was a goat. Many years ago Kaldi (or Khalid), a young Arabian goatherd, was tending his flock when he noticed the goats leaping around in a strange fashion. As he watched he saw that this odd behaviour began after they had eaten the red berries of an unfamiliar tree. His curiosity aroused, Kaldi ate...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Ancient Engravings And Sculptures Unearthed At Sinhagad Fort 2,700-year-old petroglyphs depicting people, ships and animals discovered in Sweden Marble slab of Buddha from ancient China which was found propped against fireplace in quaint English cottage sells for £554K Dawn of Greek archaeology:...

The church had been built in the sixth century A.D. by the Byzantine emperor Justinian . The Byzantine Empire, founded in A.D. 330, was the first great flowering of Christian civilization after the fall of the Roman Empire. Its capital city of Constantinople (today Istanbul ), on the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium, commanded the Bosporus, the narrow strait linking the Black Sea with t...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: Buckingham Palace refuses to return remains of Ethiopia's 'stolen prince' who is buried in Windsor Castle grounds Over 200mn years old plant fossils found in Maharashtra's Chandrapur How to buy a dinosaur Buy links to purchase Sanjeev Sanyal's ‘क्रांतिकारी : भारत के स्वतंत्रता संग्राम की अलग कहान...

‘ Stories from Inscriptions ’ derives its inspiration from the inscriptions themselves. The purpose of this book is to introduce various aspects of Bharatavarsha’s long, eventful, and often tragic history as narrated by her kings and ministers, businessmen and Bhaktas, and bards and warriors in their own words through the medium of inscriptions. Order link of the book 'Stories from Inscriptions' b...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: What happened to the missing passengers of the Titanic? As eerie new photos show shoes left in the wreckage, experts reveal where the 1,160 are likely to be A Secret History of Mongolian Wolves Archaeologists Discover Roman Camps in Jordan That May Indicate a Secret Military Invasion How the long...

The myth that Indian rulers never ventured abroad for conquests, with a few rare exceptions, has come to be accepted as an unquestionable truth due to these distortions. It is precisely to demolish this myth that this book by Venkatesh Rangan assumes crucial importance. In recent years with the slow yet steady decolonisation of the Indian mind has taken place. An “ Indic view ” of our past based o...

Links to the news items, book launch details and the history podcast recommendation of the week below: India threatens colonial 'reckoning' for Britain as it prepares to ask for the return of legendary treasures including priceless Koh-i-Noor diamond used in Crown Jewels Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza's hidden chamber: Scientists get FIRST glimpse into mysterious 30ft-long corridor 'likely creat...

Arjumand Banu Begum, more commonly known as Mumtaz Begum was the wife of the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, who died while giving birth to their 14th child, Gauhara Begum in 1631. According to legend, the emperor was so distraught that to express his eternal love, he pledged to build the most beautiful tomb in the world. Buy Links: Amazon India Amazon USA Affiliate Earnings Disclaimer: This sit...

‘Pray don’t let it be me,’ thinks the soldier, ‘please don’t let it be me—or if it is, make it quick. Don’t let something be torn off followed by searing agony.’ No soldier wants to die listening to his own screams as his blood ebbs away in the dirt. That is a cruel end, likely to make his brothers-in-arms throw down their weapons and flee in blind terror. In some instances, though, death is prefe...

A collection of stories based on actual historical events as depicted in Padmasri Meenakshi Jain’s seminal book “Flight of Deities”. Inspired by the historical account, various authors have each focused on a unique historical event, clothed it in flesh and bones, and brought it to life through the magic of prose. From Aryavarta to Dakshinatwa, from the holy lands of Ayodhya, Vrindavan and many mor...

The Quwwat-ul-Islam mosque in Delhi was constructed by Qutubuddin Aibak to mark the victory of Muhammad Ghori over Prithviraj Chauhan in 1192. An inscription of Qutubuddin Aibak clearly stated that materials of 27 pre-existing Hindu and Jain temples at that site were used for its construction. The Hindus of Hindustan by Dr. Meenakshi Jain - Book Review Buy Links: AryanBooks.com Amazon India Flipka...

India, though it has … more than 500 spoken dialects, has only one sacred language and only one sacred literature, accepted and revered by all adherents of Hinduism alike, however diverse in race, dialect, rank, and creed. That language is Sanskrit, and that literature is Sanskrit literature. The Hindus of Hindustan by Dr. Meenakshi Jain - Book Review Buy Links: AryanBooks.com Amazon India Flipkar...

Notwithstanding the views of a section of historians and literati, spiritual, religious, and cultural continuity in India goes back many millennia. Identification with, and adoration of, the land was expressed in the sixty-three verses long Prithvi Sukta of the Atharva Veda, described as the first “national song” in the world. Veneration of the land remained a recurrent theme in sacred literature....